Bonus FTs already on that "foul" from Harris. Beneficial stuff.

We seem to be our own worst enemy

Hahaj i love these refs

Heroes

Hands on D.

One problem with this team is we dont have guys that draw FTAs

Not sure what he’s crying about. He literally threw an elbow at Zuby.

LOL Filipowski shocked they called a foul on that.

Filipowski is lucky that elbow didn't connect or he'd be kicked out of the game.

Elbow then shoulder.

Cant worry about Gradey not making shots RN

He needs to be in the ball game

Agreed, I want him in here win or lose.

Right, but he needs to be strong Dick. No place in this game for soft Dick.

Never is.

Watching us throw lobs tonight makes me appreciate Ochai even more. His athleticism allowed A LOT of margin for error on those passes.

Not sure how we r supposed to score with this lineup

Flop

We have four non scorers in the game at the same time

We're missing Self

We're missing anyone who can make a shot or get fouled

How was that not a tie up?

Self would make some kind of adjustment to get some rebounds, Duke is living off offensive rebounds.

****ing calm down on the blocks and defend and rebound. They've figured out that we're coming for the blocks and cutting to the bucket and rebounding hard.

Handing us our asses.

MJ Rice looks like a guy who can get to the line alot. Really missing him

Duke is just playing harder and much more physical. Intensity level a lot higher. It's paying dividends with the refs too.

Thats because KJ cant defensive rebound...well at all. Never has been.

KJ can't really play significant minutes for this team when conference play starts. If he is, something seriously went wrong with Udeh and Ejiofor's development and we're stuck with a tremendously flawed player at the 5.

Id argue we are playing alot harder than Duke we just arent winning. Rarely does a sporting event come down to who is playing harder or not

I mean we are 10% from 3...playing harder has nothing to do with that

Nice to get a few OREB for ourselves.

Duke is shooting in the low 30's, I mean if we could only rebound.

I would say it's rare when it doesn't, especially at this level.

So is Duke. They're just destroying KU on the boards on and loose balls. They have more size but that isn't all that is going on here.

FInally got Dick

3 ****ing fouls LOL

CLUTCH!!!!!!!!!!!

Did anyone have clutch KJ Adams bucket on their bingo card?

Nice ****ing play Adams.

Bilas being a bitch about fouls, showing his colors

Now it costs Duke to not have had the refs call any fouls on them all half. LMAO

So Duke can just tackle Wilson?

Not sure how that wasn’t flagrant. He just blasted Wilson.

call the ****ing flagrant

Epic score for KU. Hope it ends with this score.

Beneficial whistle.

Dick certainly showed up when it mattered. Hard and strong to the hole.

The win of a championship team.

Nice game hawks.

I gotta say Duke played well enough to win, and KU brought it. Which we haven't always done in this event.

Well done, Hawks.

That’s a gutty win.

Nice post defense all around. Zuby, Adams, Udeh.

Wilson looks like an All American. Dick is instant offense. Super efficient game from Harris.

Nice win! I hate Duke, so was very satisfying to see them pull out some Dick!

Dick sitting so much in the 2nd half was odd.

RCJH GO KU! :KU:

Was a nice comeback, good job routing this team on boys.

Zuby is way better than I expected. The 5 looks really good, at least defensively. Udeh still clearly has the highest upside. We should be able to play good post defense though.

KU shot 10% better than Duke and had 13 more assists, so it would have been a shame to have lost it due to rebounds/loose balls and bad turnovers. Fortunately, their greater experience came through at the end to close it out.

It does look for now like Wilson has taken a bit of a step forward this year. We'll see if he can start making more 3s.

He has a tremendous knack for timing blocked shots.

I was surprised at how lost Lively looks. The ability is clearly there, but he looked completely out of sorts.

I was really impressed with all the young guys' capacity to deal with physical play. Most of the time freshman struggle with that because they haven't ever had to deal with it, at least from commensurate athletes. As physical as that was, it is difficult to keep composure, and they did.

That is optimistic. Mostly because that's what the rest of the B12 has as a gameplan.

Nice game for the Jayhawks! Why was Dick on the bench so long in the 2nd half?

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Harris was amazing.

KCC doesn’t like him for unknown reasons

They finally put Gradey in and he hits the biggest 3 of the game.

KU was down 1 and Duke had the ball. Here at Gainbridge Fieldhouse they played my late dad's favorite song that he sang on his death bed "Sweet Caroline". I turned to everyone and said. This is OVER. KU just won.

He looks like the 4th best freshman on Duke and I don't even think Whitehead has played yet.

Where did you come up with this one?

SVP just did a “Watch as Dick goes back door”

Tell me that wasn’t intentional

https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/show...s#post15639379

This was my final post about Harris in the thread two years ago leading into the championship year comparing him to Garrett.


https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/show...s#post16154197

And this was my post from last February questioning someone who was bashing Harris about who would play over him.

Let's try to keep the callouts with some kind of basis in reality next time. Harris has his offensive flaws, but they need his defense and decision making.

You’re begging me to de-pants you on this one bro

I caught that

Give it your best shot. You'll find plenty of me knocking Ochai last year and Braun two years ago, but Harris?

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That's what you get when you have an experienced championship team vs a team full of very talented freshmen, I guess. Though, I will add that KU lost a few of those experienced championship players and has a few freshmen of their own. And KU can often times looks a little shaky early in the year. Good win.

And Wilson has definitely taken on the role of leader and scorer.

I definitely like what I saw from Ejifor (sp?). He looks like he's gonna be a force for this team.
I like Udeh, too, but he seems a little slow and clueless at times.
And for all the crap that Adams gets, he plays hard, doesn't make many mistakes, and gives the team good energy. And he made some plays down the stretch, offensively and defensively.

It was good to see that 7ft freshman on Duke go down in flames.


Actually, that guy was really good. But a very cocky, very punchable Duke face.

I’ve often said that Wilson is a better outside shooter than his percentage, but he does need to learn to stop shooting it when it isn’t falling.

If it’s contested, use the shot fake more to drive (which almost always works in college basketball). He’s such an effective driver that he doesn’t need to settle for guarded 3’s.

That alone will improve that percentage.

:toast:

Nice early (in the season) win. :clap: Unfortunately I fell asleep until the final 30 seconds. :(

McCullar and JW are *not* good deep shooters. JW wants to flash this for the nba but 0-7 last nite was a drag. And most of them were open anyway. We need a 2nd shooter.

Also we have zero post offense for the first time I can remember jn like, my life. Maybe the 1-2 years circa 1999 of Eric ChenoBitch

Meh, I don't think Bilas was that bad. Maybe a slight bias but overall, he was pretty even keel. Even called out that play at the end should have been a flagrant.

Lol, no. He would have said that no matter the players name. I mean, he did go back door, right? You guys gotta slow your roll on this. We got a whole season to go. Save some of these, don't use them all up in the first month. :p

It's been going away for awhile. I remember Cliff Alexander was in the post with like a 6'5 guy behind him on the block that he had to outweigh him by 50+ lb. Got fed an uncontested entry pass, straight up on the block, tiny dude right behind him.

.... And kicked it back out.

FFS, JUST ****ING TURN AND SHOOT. ****.

I think at 6'3 and 30 years old or whatever I was at the time out of shape as ****, I think I could have scored at least a couple times out of 10 with that post entry. JUST DO SOMETHING. At Cliffs size, whatever he did, if he did it strong it would have worked.

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Objectively, though it makes sense. There isn't much of that in the NBA these days. Embiid and Jokic is about it right? At least dudes that are effective.

In college it's Drew Timme and Orlando Bacot right?

The NBA and NCAA games are leaning towards space and shooting.

Plus, even in the lower leagues, the amount of coaches that looked at Hakeem Olajuwon and thought, "I can teach my guy to do that" are probably out of the game these days.

As a guy that appreciates elite post play (like we had when Danny) it saddens me. I LOVE the efficiency of a good post player. But it isn't the game. I also love good movement and spacing and shooting. Basically I love good, technically sound ball.

But I think some coaches are missing the boat with post play. But whatever, if Wilson can play like he did against Puke, the dish/OREB game works for our guys.

Our post offense is going to be our big wings bullying smaller defenders around the basket.

Oh man Cliff Alexander memories for the LOSS

Definitely one guy I had forgot about and didn't really have a need to remember.

He had that one cool dunk against Oklahoma State lol

Right there is when I knew the post game was dead for the foreseeable future. I mean hell, the little bastard all but disappeared behind Cliff. On the block. And he kicked it out.

:cuss:

Yeah, unfortunately, Adams is not a create a shot in the post type of player. He can definitely be an ok pick and roll type of player, though. It's gonna have to be the young big men learning and developing. The plus with Adams is that he's quick enough to be able to switch on defense. Udeh is too slow. But maybe that is more that he's still learning and he will get better at that.